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A Thousand Acres

by Jane Smiley

Published: 1996-09-30

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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"BRILLIANT . . . A THRILLING WORK OF ART."--Chicago Sun-TimesWhen Larry Cook, the aging patriarch of a rich, thriving farm in Iowa, decides to retire, he offers his land to his three daughters. For Ginny and Rose, who live on the farm with their husbands, the gift makes sense--a reward for...

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* * * Dramatic,
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A Thousand Acres: A Novel

by Jane Smiley

Published: 2011-01-05

Kindle Edition: 385 pages

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This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and ...

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* * * Informative,
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel

by David Mitchell

Published: 2010-06-29

Hardcover: 496 pages

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In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times Book Review called him simply ?a genius.? Now David Mitchell lends fresh credence to The Guardian's claim that ?each of his books...

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A Thousand Autumns: Part of the De Opresso Liber Series

by Dr. Charles C. Southerland Jr.

Published: 2010-02-11

Paperback: 478 pages

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"A Thousand Autumns" is part of an engraving, taken from a dedicatory monument located in Arlington National cemetery. It tells the story of a valiant struggle during the "Secret War in Laos" lost in the annals of Vietnam history.

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Thousand Cranes

by Yasunari Kawabata

Published: 1996-11-26

Paperback: 147 pages

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Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.   While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents’ deaths, Kikuji encounters his father’s form...

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* * Unconvincing

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A Thousand Cuts: A Novel

by Simon Lelic

Published: 2010-03-04

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A stunning debut novel that unravels the hidden story behind a school shooting It should be an open-and-shut case. Samuel Szajkowski, a recently hired history teacher, walked into a school assembly with a gun and murdered three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himse...

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Thousand Days in Venice

by Marlena De Blasi

Published: 2003-03-20

Paperback: 256 pages

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When Fernando spots her in a Venice cafe and knows immediately that she is The One, Marlena de Blasi is caught off guard. A divorced American woman travelling through Italy, she thought she was satisfied with her life. Yet within a few months, she quits her job as a chef, sells her house, kisses her...

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* * * * * Romantic,
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A Thousand Days in Venice (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Marlena De Blasi

Published: 2003-06-03

Paperback: 304 pages

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He saw her across the Piazza San Marco and fell in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; and she, a divorced American chef, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thinks she is incapable of intimacy, that her h...

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* * * * Dark,
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown

by Julia Scheeres

Published: 2011-10-11

Hardcover: 320 pages

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?I love socialism, and I?m willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I?d take a thousand with me.?  ?Jim Jones, September 6, 1975 In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic...

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Thousand Pieces of Gold (Asian Voices)

by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Published: 1989-05-01

Paperback: 308 pages

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This masterful biographical novel?which has sold more than 100,000 copies?tells the true life story of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn tells the gripping tale of how Lalu struggled out...